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First of all I want to thank Barry for his Vick thread. I have been fulminating over this thing for so long and finally have the chance to vent my spleen. I have again been blindsided by Lady Luck and am now home again recovering from a heart fibbrulation(sp?) hands down the most painful thing I hav...

I am sitting here with my five little mutts, all rescues, trying to wrap my poor feeble mind around this story. I don't believe rehabilitation is acheived by two years in prison, probably cushy in comparison with his fellow inmates, folllowed by community service for some period of time, and some pu...

Here's another old timer who remembers Mel by the scars he left;The first post on the old site was trashed to a pile of letters. I couldn't understand why he hated me so much but in a few days I saw him do the same thing to other members and decided it was just part of him acting out some past wrong...

I still like Fox for his unabashed flair. I have some of his Capitol recordings made in Riverside Church. The organ is an Aolian Skinner and the pieces he plays are made for the instrument. As an old codger I still love things like The Lost Chord and he does it up brown. As an aside Lance you mentio...

The magazine of they American Guild of Organists always has an ad for "Historic Ameriican Organs." I have a few of these multi disc productons and they are very interesting, rich with liner notes. Most if not all of them are made during conventions of the AGO and the feature I really like is that th...

I have the four by Walter from the late fifties. I had them on lp too. It's hard to say what precisely there is in them that I never tire of. They were made for playing on Sunday afternoon, stretched out on the sofa, after a dinner of roast beef, with veggies floating iin rich brown gravy. The Germm...

Reblem; I have anticipated you in that I had a chair lift installed a few yars ago. I still have an old Sony cassette player that serves me well. I finally got to listen to my Berlioz "Te Deum" and once again the Deo Dominum and the Judex Crederis carried me away to another world. The music runs as ...

in the local hospital. I was attempting a brief walk Sunday last week when I found that I had left without my lungs. I hied myself back in the house and collapsed. On Monday I went to the doc office and thence to the hospital. I now have COPD, a surprise since I thought I breathed pretty good. This ...

For me, "A Death in the Family" bu James Agee. He remminds me of Hemingway in his relentless pursuit of the perfect sentence ion conveying mood or time and place. He is also the screenwriter for the masterpiece "The African Queen" starring Hepburn and Bogart.

You made a good move buying adjacent to the parkway Teresa. The traffic is never very heavy, no trucks climbing grades and no billboards!!! These mountain counties have, for the most part, as nice a population as you would want to find until you mention one topic; zoning. The idea that you might wan...

This Tuesday we will see a spectacle right out of the movies. I think it will rank well above Brunhildes Immolatiion Scene in "Die Walkure". At least in the drama if not the music. The final rites for Michael will take place of course in the only venue suitable, that chrome plated Walhalla On The Fr...

Reblem. I had a bad reaction to Zocor. Medco called me to get permission to swith to Zocoer from Lipitor. My doctor agreed. iIt took a couple of months to develop the reaction. My doctor took me off the Zocor annf back on Lipitor. It took a couple of months before I began to feel better. It is inter...

Only rarely in Western history has one been given such an opening David; rarer still to be given a captive audience, so to speak I have never gone into the subject in such a situation as this, it is too crowded, too many voices, too much contagious fears. Even given the perfect scene, a quiet place,...

This afternoon I was resting and thinking what a lovely Fourth it was, brilliant blue sky, the mountains seemed nearer somehow and even though we had no particular plans still very enjoyable. Of a sudden the dogs began to bark and my wife told me to arise from my pallet, the Snyders were here. I got...

Back in the fifties I, like 800.000 others found myself picked up by GM. I was told of the many benefits, perks etc. that went with their company and it seemed like a good deal. It was in almost every respect, the lone flaw being the resistance of management to change. But it didn't seem to affect t...

Thanks to all for all your kind words. Through all the absence from this forum I wondered how the ship was sailing; who had debarked, who had boarded. Looking back to when I joined, well before the 9-11 days, when the forum was on the Amazon site, I still recall some names but most alas are vanished...

For what seems like the tenth time I announce my return to this forum. As in the previous suspensions the cause is medical and I am not going into them but for the first time I have a handle on things and with a new cast of providors pursuing new paths I am happy to say I feel better and get around ...

A young man who does small repairs for us was telling me today about a pianiist named Irviny Nytregyhazi. Ever the country bumpkin I thought I knew all of the well known pianists but this one is unknown to me and i'd like to know more about him.I had two CD transfers from a pristine LP put out by th...

So far I haven't heard anyone speak for the children from both sides who are paying the price of this horrible confflict. You don't have to take one side or the other to see the suffering they endure while their parents fight. I wish there was a way to bring them all, Palestine and Israeli children,...

take 27 prescription drugs for heart failure, kidney function,diabetes,arthritis, insomnia,and blood pressure and cholestrol. My cholesterol is 55, BP90/60,hemoglobin a1c, a test to tell how well your glucose is controlled, is 5.7, normal for a person without that disease and so while I get very tir...

I never dreamed I'd be around this long Werner or I would have altered my personality a long time ago. Yesterday I was listening to Handels Concerti Grosssi Opus six. I fell into a reverie about how many hours I had spent doing just what I was doing then; listening, all atwitter because I enjoyed mu...

Male, 81,Smoky Mountains,CD's, about 3000, mostly the core repertoire plus a bit of fluff like cd's of old acoustic records, and now because of that 81 years old part I can't recall the other questions. I'm also afraid that I am become an old windbag so I guess I am done. I love this forum for its d...

I took a tumble a week ago;no broken bones but many sore spots. So this is a venture to come downstairs and say hi to all. I don't celebrate Christmas, mostly because of all the hoopla and general nonsense that comes with it. I can't stop my wife from giving me some simple thing, a shirt, socks etc ...

Slightly off topic but cell phones: I was in a sandwich shop and nearby was a guy talking up a storm on his cell phone; evidently some business coup worth bilions had just gone down and he was a big deal in it. While he was blabbibg away the phone rang. He turned several shades red and left without ...

I am the child of a mixed marriage, mother Protestant Father Catholic. I was baptized Catholic, raised protestant and by the time I grew up had a healthy suspicion of both. My wife is a practicing Christisan by which I mean she lives her faith; kind, forgiving, non judgemental, and the soul of toler...

Does anyone remember Dame Myra Hess? i think she was also responsible for restoring the harpsichord to it's place. I had many of her recordings on LP, now gone but not forgotten. I always thought that Madame Landowska designed her instrument to suit the acoustiics of large spaces. Was not the origin...

I agree Charpentier is very underated, I tried to get anything by him but it was hard finding much. His Te Deum along with Vivaldi's Gloria are pieces I have played countless times over the past sixty years or so and never tire of them. As for our new blue status I'm sue alo of these Bible Belters m...

The post above was truncated; the first half dealt with the fact that I had spent 37 years working at GM Proving Grounds in Milford Michigan' I was a test cordinator responsible for the testing,, repair, maintenance and test integrity. I had gotten into the fact that GM is worldwide in every sense o...

ia there is GM Holden in Australia, and GM China. As an aside the most popular car in China today is the Buick Regal. There is GM in Malaysia, South Africa, and in Europe there is Opel in Germany and Vauxhall in England. The latest newbie is in Russia, bigger than the Toyota plant across the street....

Thank you all very much. As long as I can stay reasonablly mobile I care not for much else. To Slofstra; Yes I did play a CD as soon as allowed but nothing random. I went for a piece which struck the exact right chord; Te Deum" by Jean Francois Charpentier long one of those pieces that make me feel ...

Hello, I'm not sure anyone remembers me anymore after a long absence. I'm home again from from the never never land we call our health care system, somewhat the worse for wear but still able to get about some halting steps. I hope everyone is well; it has been so long that I can't even recall what w...

I never bought anything based on the cover but there were some nice covers. My favorite of all was the RCA nine Beethoven symphonies. It was a full spread portrait of the Toscannini in black and white, very sharp and he had a gaze much like the Mona Lisa. I stared at that cover every time I played o...

I buy anything I can by Charpentier, Marc Antoine that is. And Gillles also. MAC wrote some sublimely beautiful liturgical music. He was persecuted by Lully and the performance of his music was bannned during much of his lifetime. Gilles wrote a stunning requiem. There may be more by Gilles in the c...

The CD is back in my arms again and thnk you for the copy. And for the copy of her Vienna album. The Victor Herbert and the Vienna album illustrate just what it was that made one treasure "Bubbles" so much. I can't think of anyone else who made us feel the same joy that she felt in singing; she had ...

Today I played to cd's of the Berlioz "Te Deum", one by the Bavarian SO and company and the other by Dennis Keene and company. Both are good but decades after my first hearing it by Beecham on a Columbia release I find I still prefer it and it has been many years since I heard it last. Is this pheno...

Auntie Lynn,No but the piece you mention sounds interesting, and the opening monologue from "The Shadow" gave me goosepimples. The theme was "Omphales Spinning Wheel" By Saint Saens. I found an old LP by Mitropoulis and the NYPO and not knowing it by the title was pleased to find it there waiting to...

Auntie Lynn, do you remember the thme music for The Shadow? I spent years trying to find the name of it. It was properly mysterious and stll runs through my mind on occasion. I'll give you a chance to respond and if you don't get it I'll reveal all.

I remember Carl Weinrich; his recording of Orgelbuchlein was recorded on an organ in the town of Skannigen(sp), Sweden by Westminster and was one of the best I know of. The organ, the maker of which I do not recall, was all that E. Power Biggs would have wished for, a mechanical tracker. Copious lin...

Although he may not have the same aura as most of those on these liists Arthur Fiedler must rank somewhere as having a real impact on the appreciation and sales of good music. His recording of 'Jalousie" was a record in sales. He offered so many records that sold to people who never would have bough...

Another legacy of Eugene Goosens is his arrangement of "The Messiah" which was used by Beecham in his notorious RCA set of the fifties. Like many others I have both the original version and Goosens' and love them both.

Another vote for Romeo and Juliet but I'd throw in the "other" one by the other Russian, PT. One loses me a quarter of the way through, the other I bolt as soon as the love theme, or whatever it is that you call it, starts. It has the same effect as an excess of Hershey Bars fuses teeth and jaws.

We're talking about the one that opens with Mrs. Goldberg saying"Hello, is anybody?" Is that right Corlyss?
And speaking of Corylss do you recall "Meet Corylss Archer", a series involving a precocious girl doing tomboy things.?

I was feeling bored. It is 4AM and I have Googled myself into a stupor. But I did find a welcome site; "Old Radio Shows" wherin i ran across a recording of the 25th anniversary of the Voice of Firestone with a few good singers; Rise Stevens, Eleanor Steber, Richard Rounsville(sp?) Leonard Warren and...

I bought a computer in mid-2000 and had not a clue as to how to do anything (so what's new?) I did finally learn how to google and ended up in whatever the board was that was part of Amazon. I recall Auntie Lynn, Ted, Ralph, Dennis Spaeth, and of course Mel. I recall a continuing thread with Mark Am...